Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize

This Melvin Lurie Labor-Management Cooperation Prize was created in 1998 to honor the memory of Melvin Lurie, a Professor of Economics at the University and founder of what is now MHRLR. The prize is intended to continue and enhance Professor Lurie’s legacy of promoting the practice and further the development of cooperation between labor and management. As such the prize recognizes individuals for “outstanding service in the cause of promoting, creating or researching labor-management cooperation.” The prize is open to individuals in the private or public sector, and to unionists, managers, neutrals, academics and public officials.

Nominations for the prize are sought from members of the Labor-Management Cooperation Committee at UWM as well as from relevant organizations such as the Labor and Employment Relations Association, the Milwaukee Labor Council, the Southeastern Wisconsin Labor-Management Council, and from previous prize winners and the community at large.

The Labor-Management Cooperation Committee will consider all nominations and chooses a prize winner or winners. The winner(s) provide a brief lecture (20-30 minutes) at the annual Melvin Lurie Memorial Prize ceremony, held in early Fall each year at UWM, and receive a total prize of $500 from the Melvin Lurie Memorial Fund.

Recipients to date include:

2017 – The Milwaukee Bucks and the Alliance for Good Jobs

2016 – City of Madison Human Resources, AFSCME Council 32 and the Madison General Municipal Employee Associations